48 MALPIGHIACEa:. 



Malpighiacese. 



Kyssoptens Blume. 



Ryssopteris Cumingiana A. Juss. in Vidal Phanerog. Cum. Philipp. 

 p. 99. 



Hab. Kotosho, leg. T. Kawakami et S. Sasaki, Juli. 1912. 



Determiaed by Mr. T. Kawakami at Manila in his trip to the 

 Archipelago. 



JBiptage GiEETN. 



Hiptage leptophylla Hayata sp. nov. Rami fusco-purpurascentes vel 

 fuscentes, recti, graciles. Folia opposita membranacea, ovata vel ovato- 

 oblonga, rarius obovata, maxima 8 cm. longa 4 cm. lata, apice abrupte acuta 

 vel apiculato-acuta, basi late cuneata vel rotundato-acuta, costis venis et venulis 

 utraque pagLue tenuissime elevatis distinctis, supra glabra, subtus ad et prope 

 costam adpresse hirsuta, petioKs 5 mm. longis adpresse hirsutis. Kacemi 

 axillares vel terminales, oppositi, plerumque ad axiUas gemini, 5-6 cm. 

 longi dense vel laxe florati, rhachidibus et pedicellis adpresse pubescentibus, 

 bracteis subulato-lanceolatis 2-3 mm. longis, pediceUis 5-10 mm. longis. Sepala 

 5, insequaha oblonga vel oblongo-rectangularia, apice rotundata, basi sequilata, 

 «irc. 4 mm. longa 2J mm. lata, extus adpresse pubescentia intus glabra, sed 

 basi liirsuta. Petala 5 rotundato-oblonga, 13 mm. longa 9 mm. lata, apice 

 rotundata, basi brevissime unguiculata, (unguibus angustissimis f mm. latis 

 2 mm. longis) extus adpresse hirsuta intus glabra margine fimbriata multiner- 

 vata. Stamina 10, declinata, omnia fertiha, unum cetris multo majus. Stylus 

 1 fihformis primum eircinnatus, stigmate capiteUato rarius truncate. 



Hab. Tandaisha, Jyogesha, leg. U. Moei, Aprili. 1910. 



Near H. Madablota Gjjetn. ; but differs from it in having much shorter 

 racemes, smaller flowers and very much thinner and smaller leaves. It 

 differs also from H. (Atusifolia DC, by the ovate acute leaves. 



